Not just light but everything
Are you saying all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, there is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves?
I'm just talking about wave-particle duality. Every radiation, electrons which have a wave nature has found to have a particle nature, and every particles have a wave nature. Wave nature is inversely related to mass so for big objects wave nature is unnoticeably small
Far out, man.
But where's Tom with the weather?
Like…totally man…
It should change to one or the other the moment he looks at it.
I'm not sure that's how it works. Is it?
But it's not looking at it, it's how we measure the state.
Thank you for redirecting there. I actually had physics classes in my higher education but I'm a bit confused on when particule behavior and wave behavior manifest now that's it's been some years
After listening to 100s of science podcasts, watching 1000s of science vids on YT, and sleeping on a Neil Degrasse Tyson pillow I still don't understand how something can be both a particle and a wave. Sounds made up, like by a lazy SWE
It's easier once you understand that they are not both, particles are actually a type of wave 🙃
Reality is an illusion, it's waves all the way down, these meat prisons hallucinate solidity to cope with the presence of complex force interactions they can't properly perceive, Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn
I think the best way of thinking about it is that it's neither. Vaguely speaking, "quantum stuff" can be described very well by math, and this math has some elements of "waveness" (think wave equations, interference) and "particleness" (think ladder operators or maybe position eigenstates). But that doesn't mean it's one, the other, or even both — it's described by some math, and that math is agnostic as to what you call it.
In our macroscopic experience it's easy to divide the world into these two convenient buckets, but the reality is different.
Personally I think this weirdness is exploited by popsci to get more clicks, but maybe that's just my jaded opinion after years of grad school…
Electrons also have wave like properties.
All small particles do, they’ve done the double slit expirement with atoms and molocules
I've done a double slit experiment with OP's mom.
Ok so a wave is the physical expression of energy transferring through a medium
Ocean waves are kinetic energy transferring from water molecule to water molecule, sound is high frequency waves moving through a transmissible medium in a way we can perceive as noise, etcetera.
"Light is a wave and a particle" refers to the fact that since photons travel in a probability wave until perceived, they are capable of being their own medium for electromagnetic energy.
This is why light can travel in a vacuum where other wave based phenomenon cannot, light comes with its own medium to travel through the void with.
This medium you're talking about is called "aether" and was disproven in 1887.
No, that is the separate medium, I'm talking about the photon being both the medium and the energy the medium is carrying.
